How can I discover truth I thought and that thought led me nowhere. No one would tell me the truth.
Jean RhysDesiderio, Odio, Vita, Morte erano terribilmente vicini nell'ombra
Jean RhysStichwörter: victorians
Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
Jean RhysFor the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.
Jean RhysStichwörter: love unrequited-love masochism
I have arranged my little life.
Jean RhysIt's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?
Jean RhysStichwörter: sexism
She spent the foggy day in endless, aimless walking, for it seemed to her that if she moved quickly enough she would escape the fear that hunted her. It was a vague and shadowy fear of something cruel and stupid that had caught her and would never let her go. She had always known that it was there - hidden under the more of less pleasant surface of things. Always. Ever since she was a child.
You could argue about hunger or cold or loneliness, but with that fear you couldn't argue. It went too deep. You were too mysteriously sure of its terror. You could only walk very fast and try to leave it behind you.
Stichwörter: fear loneliness walking escape hunger terror
There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
Jean RhysNot that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.
Jean RhysStichwörter: reading books solitude heaven
Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.
Jean RhysStichwörter: love liar worship desire lover mistress goddess
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